A pack of at least a dozen dogs escaped from a home where they had been left alone over the weekend and attacked and killed several penned farm animals, including a full-grown horse, according to the Abbeville County Sheriffs Office.

Investigators said that there are no charges yet, but the case is still being investigated.

Four dead goats and one dead horse that the dogs had killed and had eaten part of them," Mann said.

The animals belonged to the woman who deputies say also owns the dogs. Investigators said there were 30 dogs on the property owned by a 65-year-old woman who told deputies that she was not at home because she spent the night in Greenville.

The woman showed deputies food she says she left behind for the animals, but Mann says its clear that the dogs were hungry. WYFF was told by neighbor that the animals broke through a window to get out of the house.

"I can tell you this, dogs may kill animals, but when they kill them and eat them, it's because they are hungry. So I don't 100 percent blame the dogs. They were hungry. I understand there was food around, but they were hungry."

It takes a good many to take a full-size horse down. I can tell you that," he said.

Jennifer Bower lives across from the property. She said there was a lot of barking going on.

She also said some of the dogs were obviously hungry.

I was shocked when I seen it. I couldn't believe it, she said. Some of them you could see their bones, some in good health."

Investigators said the woman who owns the animals is in bad health, and voluntarily gave up the animals.

Some of the surviving animals are being kept at Big Oaks Rescue Farm.

"We try to rehabilitate them get them back to health and adopt them out to good homes -- and I have got to stress good homes," Mann said.

Also, according to the incident report, the woman's home was in deplorable condition with an overwhelming smell of pet urine and piles of feces.